Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816647392)

A philosophical investigation into the differing sensations of time in cinema and photography

Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time--cinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of the crystal image to move beyond the tropes of immobility, stasis, and death, Sutton's analysis reveals the open-endedness of time expressed in the photograph, either as a potential for an abundant future or as a depth of meandering remembrance. He presents an innovative taxonomy of time in the photograph, considering particular representations of time in the work of Nan Goldin, Eug鈩e Atget, Andy Warhol, and others. He contrasts this taxonomy with representations of time in cinema since 1895, offering fresh readings of the films of the Lumi鑽e brothers and Mitchell & Kenyon, as well as more recent works, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Am駘ie, and A Matter of Life and Death.

Throughout this work, Sutton connects and grounds cinema and photography as starting points to comprehend how we come to terms, ultimately, with time itself as pure, immanent change.

Author: Damian Sutton
ISBN-10: 0816647399
ISBN-13: 9780816647392
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/18/2009 pg. 16
Choice 03/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 293